Olympics in shadow of Coronavirus: How previous Games responded to crises

While Japan assures the Tokyo Olympic 2020 Games will go on as planned, there have been cancellations and muted versions, along with some triumph of spirit in the past

The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday announced that the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed to no later than the summer of 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The historic decision was taken after a telephonic conversation between the  IOC president Thomas Bach and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Japan’s Olympics Minister Seiko Hashimoto had earlier said that the Tokyo Olympics 2020 would go as planned, despite the spike in the number of Coronavirus cases in the country. The rapid spread of the Coronavirus had put a question mark on the future of the Olympics and whether the country was capable